† horse-chargen.
Obsolete.
1. A horse-load; the load of a pack-horse.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > load carried by animal
seamc950
horse-chargec1350
soum1397
saddlecharge?a1500
horseloadc1500
summagec1500
fare1599
c1350 Usages Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 An halpeny of custome as many tyme as he comeþ, and þe horsecharche a ferthynge.
c1350 Usages Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 358 An horse-charche, a peny.
2. A cavalry charge.
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society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun] > on horseback
career1591
hippomachia1623
horse-charge1650
cavalry charge1872
shock-action1884
1650 R. Elton Compl. Body Art Mil. (1668) i. iii. 2 I conceive it to be of little use to receive a desperate charge of the Horse..The best way of opposing the Horse-charge.
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